Midterm Break

Question 1

Poet

Answer 1

Seamus Heany

Question 2

Theme

Answer 2

Death Grief

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

Sad, Guilt

Question 4

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Answer 4

I sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close

Question 5

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Answer 5

At two o’clock our neighbors drove me home

Question 6

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Answer 6

In the porch I met my father crying - he had always taken funerals in his stride

Question 7

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Answer 7

And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow

Question 8

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Answer 8

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram

Question 9

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Answer 9

When I came in, and I was embarrassed by old men standing up to shake my hand

Question 10

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Answer 10

(Mother) In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs

Question 11

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Answer 11

With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses

Question 12

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Answer 12

Snowdrops and candles soothed the bedside;

Question 13

Last line

Answer 13

No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear

A four foot box, a foot for every year

Question 14

In the porch I met my father crying - he had always taken funerals in his stride

Answer 14

Upset his father indicates that this is serious if he is usually unaffected by funeral